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Re: Global extensions
From: |
Giuseppe Scrivano |
Subject: |
Re: Global extensions |
Date: |
Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:11:30 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Mark van Dijk <address@hidden> writes:
> Salutations,
>
> On Archlinux I have uninstalled my local profile's extensions. I've downloaded
> the .xpi files again, and I have placed them into /usr/lib/icecat/extensions.
> Then, after restarting icecat, I was hoping to see something along the lines
> of
> a dialog that would ask me if I wanted to install these extensions. But alas,
> nothing like that came onto my screen.
>
> I have also tried to chmod the icecat dir to my username so that I have write
> permissions. But, that did not help.
>
> How can I get global extensions to work?
what happens if you extract the addon into /usr/lib/icecat/extensions?
You need to extract the .xpi file to an empty directory under
/usr/lib/icecat/extensions.
The sub-directory must have the name as the em:id field specified in the
addon install.rdf file.
Cheers,
Giuseppe
- Global extensions, Mark van Dijk, 2011/09/04
- Re: Global extensions,
Giuseppe Scrivano <=